What happens in a:

TCM treatment,

During the first session a complete TCM diagnosis takes place. This can sometimes take as long as 1 hour. I will ask many different questions about various bodily functions and all aspects of your health.

Several points on the body may be palpated and your tongue will be examined. Also I will closely monitor your pulse. Then after a diagnosis we will start the subsequent treatment.

Needles and/or herbs will not always be used. It's also possible to use warmth, massage, nutrition scheme's, exercise regimes etc.

Subsequent treatment sessions will start with a short question and answer session so we can interact with the state of the symptoms at the very moment of the treatment. This is why there is no standard treatment for an illness or disease.

Tai Chi or Qi Gong Class

Turn up wearing loose comfortable clothing.  The first section of the Tai Qi class is a Qi Gong warm up then we get to learn about 4 or 5 moves of the form. You get one at a time then a bit of practice then the next and so on.

Sometimes we practice martial applications in the last half hour sometimes pushing hands or other stuff depending on time constraints.

The first section of the Qi Gong class is a warm up with one of the famous Qi Gong forms such as the 8 brocades (Ba Duan Jin), the five animal frolics (Wu Qin Xi), shaolin nei gong, sinew and tendon changing (Yi Jin Jing) then we go on to learn a standing Qi gathering exercise  and we finish with a meditation.